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Farrow, Robert; Iniesto, Francisco; Weller, Martin; Pitt, Rebecca; Algers, Anne; Bozkurt, Aras; Cox, Glenda; Czerwonogora, Ada; Elias, Tanya; Essmiller, Kathy; Funk, Johanna; Lambert, Sarah; Mittelmeier, Jenna; Nagashima, Tomo; Rabin, Eyal; Rets, Irina; Spica, Elizabeth; Vladimirschi, Viviane and Witthaus, Gabi (2021). GO-GN Guide to Conceptual Frameworks. Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN). The Open University (UK).

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Hu, Yang; Tarafdar, Monideepa; Alshehabi Al-Ani, Jabir; Rets, Irina; Hu, Shenggang; Denier, Nicole; Hughes, Karen D.; Konnikov, Alla and Ding, Lei (2022). Gendered STEM Workforce in the United Kingdom: The Role of Gender Bias in Job Advertising. HMSO.

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Konnikov, Alla; Rets, Irina; Hughes, Karen D.; Alshehabi Al-Ani, Jabir; Denier, Nicole; Ding, Lei; Hu, Shenggang; Hu, Yang; Jiang, Bei; Kong, Linglong; Tarafdar, Monideepa and Yu, Dengdeng (2022). Responsible AI for labour market equality (BIAS). In: Hantrais, Linda ed. How to Manage International Multidisciplinary Research Projects. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

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Papathoma, Tina; Ferguson, Rebecca; Iniesto, Francisco; Rets, Irina; Vogiatzis, Dimitrios and Murphy, Victoria (2020). Guidance on how Learning at Scale can be made more accessible. In: Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Learning@ Scale, Aug 12-14, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, pp. 289–292.

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Rets, Irina; Astruc, Lluïsa; Coughlan, Tim and Stickler, Ursula (2022). Approaches to simplifying academic texts in English: English teachers’ views and practices. English for Specific Purposes, 68 pp. 31–46.

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Rets, Irina; Stickler, Ursula; Coughlan, Tim and Astruc, Lluïsa (2022). Simplification of open educational resources in English: Its effect on text processing of English learners. In: Rienties, Bart; Hampel, Regine; Scanlon, Eileen and Whitelock, Denise eds. Open World Learning: Research, Innovation and the Challenges of High-Quality Education. Routledge Research in Digital Education and Educational Technology. London: Routledge, pp. 89–102.

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Rienties, Bart and Rets, Irina (2022). The impact of virtual exchange on East-West social relations: lessons from a Macau-Portugal foreign language exchange. Journal of China Computer-Assisted Language Learning (In press).

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Rienties, Bart and Rets, Irina (2022). The impact of virtual exchange on East–West social relations: lessons from a China-Portugal foreign language exchange. Journal of China Computer-Assisted Language Learning (Early access).

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Rets, Irina (2021). Linguistic accessibility of Open Educational Resources: Text Simplification As An Aid To Non-native Readers Of English. PhD thesis The Open University.

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Rets, Irina and Rienties, Bart (2021). Virtual exchange: supporting online collaboration to benefit all learners. THE campus / Times Higher Education.

Rets, Irina; Coughlan, Tim; Stickler, Ursula and Astruc, Lluïsa (2021). Accessibility of Open Educational Resources: how well are they suited for English learners? Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning (Early Access).

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Rets, Irina; Herodotou, Christothea; Bayer, Vaclav; Hlosta, Martin and Rienties, Bart (2021). Exploring critical factors of the perceived usefulness of a learning analytics dashboard for distance university students. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 18(1), article no. 46.

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Rets, Irina (2020). What if ‘eye’ find it too difficult? English L2 users’ response to text simplification. In: SIG27: Sharpening the facets of online measures: Research at the cutting edge, 14 Dec - 16 Dec 2020, [Online].

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Rienties, Bart; Lewis, Tim; O'Dowd, Robert; Rets, Irina and Rogaten, Jekaterina (2020). The impact of virtual exchange on TPACK and foreign language competence: reviewing a large-scale implementation across 23 virtual exchanges. Computer Assisted Language Learning (Early access).

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Rets, Irina; Rienties, Bart and Lewis, Timothy (2020). Transforming pre-service teacher education through Virtual Exchange: a mixed-method analysis of perceived TPACK development. Interactive Learning Environments (Early Access).

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Rets, Irina and Rogaten, Jekaterina (2020). To simplify or not? Facilitating English L2 users’ comprehension and processing of Open Educational Resources in English using text simplification. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (Early Access).

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Rets, Irina and Ilya, Ali (2018). Eliciting ELT students’ Understanding of Plagiarism in Academic Writing. Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 4(2) pp. 193–211.

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Rets, Irina (2017). Vocabulary Retention and Concordance-based Learning in L3 Acquisition. Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 3(2) pp. 313–324.

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Savasci, Merve and Rets, Irina (2021). “As the Twig is bent, so is the Tree Inclined”: Research engagement among pre-service EFL teachers. The Journal of Language Teaching and Learning, 11(2) pp. 114–137.

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Tarafdar, Monideepa; Rets, Irina and Hu, Yang (2022). Can ICT enhance workplace inclusion? The role of ICT-enabled inclusion practices. In: ECIS 2022 Research-in-Progress Papers, article no. 33.

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